Hanns Zischler
Birthday: 1947-06-18
Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Biography: Hanns Zischler (born 18 June 1947) is a German actor most famous in America for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich. According to the Internet Movie Database, Zischler has appeared in 171 movies since 1968. Known in Sweden for his role as Josef Hillman in the second season of the Martin Beck movies, though his voice is dubbed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hanns Zischler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Walk on Water
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...
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Munich
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...
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The French Revolution
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...
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Kings of the Road
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doc...
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Angels of Iron
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played a...
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Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his h...
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The Left-Handed Woman
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has die...
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A Woman in Flames
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the cal...
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Traveling Roadshow
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby M...
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Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation r...
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666: In Bed with the Devil
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, wh...
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The Venus Trap
The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. Af...
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Flame & Citron
Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assign...
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A Year Ago in Winter
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a...
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Amen.
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...
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Dr. M
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's i...
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Anemia
A high-ranking officer of the Italian Communist Party discovers he is a vampire and leaves his posit...
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The Cement Garden
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a myste...
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Post Impact
Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust ...
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Undercover
Boris Ruf is an investigator with the Swiss Federal Criminal Police and is on a secret mission in It...
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Prince
Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, ...
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In the Shadows
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, Ger...
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The Ring Finger
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as ...
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Malevil
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is i...
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Small Cuts
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëll...
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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has sever...
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The Universal Theory
Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the ...
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The Meetings of Anna
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several ind...
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Francesco
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to ...
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The Berlin Affair
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love...
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A Perfect Friend
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a...
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Berlin Chamissoplatz
An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then...
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Black Box
The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a st...
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Playoff
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team....
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Manhunt
Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking ...
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Salt on Our Skin
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, ...
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A Fine Day
A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by d...
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Die Frau aus dem Meer
A female corpse is washed up on the beach in Husum. Her fingertips were removed, and a piece of pape...
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The demise of Herman Dürer
Feature film based on Leon de Winter's book of the same name, in which protagonist Herman Dürer hitc...
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Balle perdue
Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic acci...
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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in lo...
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The Alchemists
Grant Show (Melrose Place) stars in this fast-placed thriller based on the best-selling novel set in...
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The Violin Player
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, ...
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George
The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes....
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell
Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and fat...
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Tracing Battleship Potemkin
Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925'...
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Bastard
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notic...
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Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen
The two twelve-year-old girls Charlotte Palfy and Louise Kröger meet on a language trip to Scotland ...
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Entführt
Spring 2008 in a suburb of Munich: Hannah Bergmann and her father Frank are kidnapped. The kidnapper...
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Rommel
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel....
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Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police o...
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Superbrain
A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier....
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I'm The Father
Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little f...
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Clouds of Sils Maria
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to ...
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Himmelsheim
In the idyllic Bavarian village of Himmelsheim, a peaceful existence is disrupted when the German Fe...
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Blinker
Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world".....
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No Sex
Architecture student Paul has failed again. He's been dead in bed for months. His girlfriend Ulrike ...
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The Edukators
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home....
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Das Baby der schwangeren Toten
A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, b...
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Same Player Shoots Again
Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machin...
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Die Bubi Scholz Story
Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black ma...
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Falsche Liebe – Die Internetfalle
With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in...
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Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let ...
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Tarot
A director, his fiancee, a scriptwriter and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length...
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Zettl
A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper....
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Doctor Faustus
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later...
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Aghet
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
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Der Handymörder
Former GDR secret service agent Wolfgang Dreher is sentenced to life imprisonment. While still in th...
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Zwei Seiten der Liebe
Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola...
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Olga's Summer
A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ...
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Heiraten macht mich nervös
Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage c...
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The Blue One
In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed...
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Strike Back
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves an...
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The Rose Garden
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A fem...
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All Will Be Revealed
Set in 1964, a man returns to his hometown looking for his childhood sweetheart but discovers a dark...
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Southeast Passage
Places and worlds beyond the interest of the media are at the mercy of the law of forgetting. The sp...
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The Specimen
When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high...
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Luise knackt den Jackpot
Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a ...
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Eine Krone für Isabell
King Victor of San Ferino dies without leaving an heir to the throne. Then the Queen Mother and her ...
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System Without Shadow
Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is...
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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant t...
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Für immer 30
For a long time advertising specialist Timo Wittmann was the best in his profession. But he does not...
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Black Sun
A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious conn...
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Der Leibwächter
Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job i...
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Antonia – Tränen im Paradies
Antonia lives happily with her aristocratic husband on their Bavarian mansion until a child is abduc...
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Stille Nächte
Georg and Rita visit Georg's parents every Christmas without telling them that they are no longer a ...
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Küss mich, Kanzler!
During the hot phase of the parliamentary election campaign, the marriage of Chancellor Ben Bischof ...
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Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been rem...
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King Ordinary
Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality....
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Abgetrieben
TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for ille...
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Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt
It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...
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Domino
A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working ...
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Liebe auf den zweiten Blick
Divorce lawyer Elvira Kupfer is outraged: The head of the law firm, Mertens, and his hated colleague...
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"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika"....
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My Dear Subject
From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmo...
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Afrika am Rhein
A senegalese man searches for a german woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also h...
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Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitar...
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Heil
An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promot...
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Outside the Box
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind...
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Grenzgang
Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of B...
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Wen die Liebe trifft
The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In ...
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Whispers Behind the Wall
Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He ...
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Gelübde des Herzens
Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic ...
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In der Welt habt ihr Angst
Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion f...
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Ben & Maria - Liebe auf den zweiten Blick
Yuppie prat loses his Ferrari and finds the love of his life with a craftswoman...
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Für immer im Herzen
The life of the successful publishing house manager Julia Berger is fully aligned with her job. This...
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Stations of the Cross
Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical t...
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Mädchen Nr. 1
Pharmacy student Thomas has been in love with his fellow student Denise since the first day of their...
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Woman Driving, Man Sleeping
Dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton have been leading a seemingly intact life, juggling c...
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The Denunciation
By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial succe...
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Herzsprung
In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - alm...
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Adieu, Mon Ami
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through...
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Brief an mein Leben
Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clini...
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All of a Sudden
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness tur...
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Bent or Broken
A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a mi...
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The Red Room
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefo...
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23
The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germ...
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Der Bankraub
Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportu...
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Logik des Gefühls
Georg, a self-confident man of 40, feels it as a heavy defeat when his wife suddenly leaves him. He ...
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Europa Europa
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
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Manoeuvres d'Élégance
Two woman live together in an appartment and talk about fashion. Then they meet men....
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A Prominent Patient
In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany ha...
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Professor Wall im Bordell
Hanns Zischler embarks on a walk to Canossa in "Prof. Wall in the brothel": A law professor desperat...
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Der Gutachter: Ein Mord zu viel
Dr. Robert Siedler is an experienced forensic psychologist who is asked to prepare an expert opinion...
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Ein Mann unter Verdacht
Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , famil...
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Red & Blue
A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene d...
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What Happens In Your Brain If You See a German Word Like...?
A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word....
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The Autograph
The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial ...
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Blessed Events
A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simon...
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Drancy Future
Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the inte...
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The Horsemen of the Storm
Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two...
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Total vereist
The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relat...
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1917: The Real October
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, w...
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Debt of Love
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives i...
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Axolotl Overkill
Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctiona...
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Bimbes: Die schwarzen Kassen des Helmut Kohl
During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to nam...
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Gate to Heaven
With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak put...
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David
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Pur...
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Operation Noah
The Christmas party at the headquarters of an oil company is harshly interrupted by a fax whose auth...
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The French as Seen by…
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrat...
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Milan noir
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life....
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Henry Angst
Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his pre...
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The Open Universe
The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he i...
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Katie Fforde: Ziemlich beste Freundinnen
Hasn't every woman ever wondered whether it's best to ditch all the men and just marry your best fri...
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Einen Moment fürs Leben
In Dublin, Blake Lester breaks Lucy Silchester's dream by preferring an overseas TV show career move...
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Der große Rudolph
The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Muni...
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Whatever Happens Next
A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-...
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Hast du Lust, mit mir einen Kaffee zu trinken?
A man, alone in Berlin. He sleeps and watches TV, walks through the city. A woman approaches him. Do...
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About Narration
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. I...
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Das Treibhaus
Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a bet...
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Beck 12 - The Loner
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and ever...
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Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems ...
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Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in...
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Beck 11 - The Cartel
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the ca...
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A Girl Called Rosemarie
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climb...
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So Broad and Big: The Nature of Otto Modersohn
Already as a student of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, rebelled agains...
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Requiem for Something Which Is Very Small
The bourgeois couple Esther and Michael have got themselves caught up in a seemingly ironic game of ...
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Sulla
The story is set against the background of a bloody civil war in the Roman Empire. Sulla is in the c...
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Voyage to 'Metropolis'
A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from d...
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Beck 16 - The Last Witness
A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up aroun...
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Allmen and the Dragonflies
Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Joha...
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Chamisso’s Shadow
A three-chapter 720-minute cinematic exploration inspired by historical explorers like Adelbert von ...
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Relativity
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan...
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"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...
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Crash Test Aglae
Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When sh...
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Krieg und Frieden – Deutsch-sowjetische Skizzen
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...
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Venus Talking
Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is s...
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Two Days of Hope
Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmu...
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders o...
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Saltimbank
The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, th...
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No
Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyon...
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Black Island
The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he g...
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A Place Called Dignity
Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Col...
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Pharos of Chaos
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besa...
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Douce France
In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupy...
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John Cranko
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is at...
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Jean Moulin
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements ...
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The Unburdening
In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driv...
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Home Entertainment
Florian and Marie want to spend a cozy evening on the sofa watching a movie. But that's more difficu...
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Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982) is an unconventional essay film by Harun Farocki that interrogates...
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1949
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ...
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